This page provides access to some of the indexes to topographic (and a few other) map sets that have been created at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. The colored triangles, circles, or underscores show local sheet holdings.

This page was begun to provide access to maps included in the 2013 Nokia-Siemens gift and in the 2012-2014 project to process captured Japanese maps. The indexes, scanned into jpeg files at 150dpi, were compiled by Sam Brandt, Sam Brown, Chris Dunlap, Tate Paulette, and Naoko Takeuchi.

Since then, we have added additional index maps to this page (again all scanned at 150dpi). Some come from the Army Map Service, but most were compiled by Map Collection staff members. Map assistant Meinold Messing, for example, compiled numerous elegant index maps during the 1960s and 1970s. And "TFA" = Thomas F. Ashburn on some indexes from the 1980s. Most of the work of scanning the indexes and putting them online has been done by Topher Kindell, Ethan Currie, Emily Thompson, and Josh Choper. In addition, Bobby Butler created clickable maps for the French and Indian indexes of indexes.

Note that we feel that we can only include indexes that are almost surely free of copyright restrictions, that is, those that were made locally, that date from 1922 or earlier, or that come from the U.S. government. This excludes recent index maps borrowed from mapping agencies or from commercial firms, very likely the majority of the Collection's indexes. Thus, this list will always be incomplete--and somewhat biased toward the inclusion of specialized rather than mainstream material.

To get a complete list of topographic map sets for a given jurisdiction, do a call number browse search in the online catalog on the root call number plus "s" (for example, "G5830 s").